The neighborhood of Sheikh Maqsood in Aleppo has lost its last senior medic. He was killed in rebel fire while trying to fulfill his duty – to help the weak and the sick amid the hostilities, his family told RT.

Dr. Shahed was killed on Thursday by a Katyusha rocket fired from the rebel-held Kafr Hamra area in Aleppo Province, Lizzie Phelan reported.

“He [Shahed] died because they called him and told him there was shelling and some people were in the medical center who needed his help, so he went to try and save their lives, and he was killed,” the surgeon’s wife, Mayada, said.

Berfin said that the Sheikh Maqsood neighborhood is their homeland and the people there “are not afraid of their snipers, [and] mortars.”“Whatever happens we will stay here,” she added.

There are only three remaining colleagues of Dr. Shahed in the neighborhood, with none of them being a surgeon. Two of them are general doctors and the third one calls himself “a semi-doctor.” In fact Dr. Mohammed Jassim is a volunteer who was trained by Dr. Shahed himself.

Patients in Sheikh Maqsood may go to government-run hospitals in west Aleppo, but they have just one makeshift hospital in a former school to get emergency care.

“February and April of 2016 was the worst period for Sheikh Maqsood we got thousands of attacks, so many different kinds of shelling, and according to my statistics we had almost 800 dead and injured civilians, and the neighborhood was largely destroyed,” Jassim said.